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THE LORD OF THE RINGS | Éowyn & Faramir I do not believe this darkness will endure.

#my parents #reblog #faramir #éowyn #eowyn #lotr

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people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

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I have a very rough idea in my head that I don't think I can clearly articulate beyond "And that concludes tonight's reports on German air forc—WHAT'S THIS? IT'S KING ARTHUR WITH A STEEL CHAIR"

#he would be down for it I have no doubt

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“Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.”

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 192; The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (via ringbearerfrodo)

#also i highly recommend reading this whole letter #and there are several others where tolkien talks about frodo #and describes him as essentially a victim of ongoing psychological torture #and he gets really pissed at people who blame frodo or say he failed #comparing that to blaming a torture victim who ‘breaks’ and spills secrets after weeks of torture #it’s both an interesting take on frodo’s character #and also (imo) some very interesting insight into the way tolkien himself thought about frodo #because he’s not a civilian talking about torture survivors #he’s very much speaking as a war veteran (tags via @fialleril)

(via joannalannister)

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thorin saying “you have keen eyes master baggins” while looking at huge ass stairs will never not be funny to me

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Young Caraxes

#smol boy #house of the dragon #hotd #asoiaf #fire and blood #reblog #caraxes #art #fanart #dragons

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my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

#I promise I’ll reply to the comments in my inbox on ao3 they really do mean the world to me

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A sketch redraw of the “Finrod Felagund meets a man for the first time”. Actually I have it’s finished but I can’t show you the finished piece for some time. But you will see it anyways. Better later than never!   (^_−)☆

#finrod!!!!! #finrod #finrod felagund #reblog #art #fanart #the silmarillion #tolkien

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A recent painting I did as a thank you for someone.  They requested Eowyn in armor, which I’ve always wanted to paint anyway. 

#fantastic #reblog #eowyn #éowyn #art #fanart #tolkien

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Eowyn, shieldmaiden of Rohan, and Faramir, son of the Steward

#10/10 no notes I love this #reblog #eowyn #éowyn #faramir #lotr #tolkien #disney #art #fanart

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Inktober hotd day 29: massive🐉

Little Laena meeting old granny war machine

#iconic of her #laena velaryon #hotd #asoiaf #fire and blood #I understand why we didn’t get a full 10 eps pre time skip but it would have been so cool to see this #because she’s not given enough screen time in the show and the emotional impact of Aemond claiming Vhagar is lessened a little #reblog #art #fanart

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↳ endless gifs of morgana ∞

KATIE McGRATH as MORGANA 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 ⧽ 𝟏.𝟏𝟐 "𝔗𝔬 𝔎𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔎𝔦𝔫𝔤"

#heerrrrr #reblog #morgana #morgana pendragon #merlin bbc #bbc merlin

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GRAPHIC/GIFSET TAG MEME: favourite tolkien song/poem? ↳ tagging @pendovah ♥

#aragorn #reblog #tolkienedit #lotredit

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GRAPHIC/GIFSET TAG MEME: favourite member of the fellowship — tagging @daenerys-stormborn & @tomcriuse (tagged by @lotrlorien ♥)

#this is devastating #reblog #frodo #lotr #lotredit

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tfw you’re supposed to be driving the moon but you do a real bad job ‘cause you’re distracted by the hot girl driving the sun. (ha, hot girl cause she’s a fire spirit.)

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.